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erwan ,

Yes unfortunately they do.

In the 90’s I wrote some Visual Basic applications, the only source code they had was isolated snippets to describe the buttons actions.

But most of the app was not based in source code but directly on a binary formal that VB could understand.

Steam Deck VS rivals

I was interested in buying a Steam Deck… Until I discovered all the (apparently) better alternatives. Asus Rog Ally, OneXPlayer, Aya Neo etc… I like the idea of an handheld console and obviously I would like to have a device that can run almost everything, so the Windows based handhelds seem better than the Steam Deck. Is it...

erwan ,

I’m wondering how PC gaming will look like if Windows fades into irrelevance.

Are developers going to keep releasing Windows build as it’s the easiest way to get your game working on all Linux distributions?

Is Windows going to be reduced to an API to write games on Linux?

erwan ,

Yes, battery and heat meaning you’ll hear the fans and feel your device get hot.

erwan ,

The movies industry is no better, they too try to get as much money as possible and they do for example with product placement.

If they could find a way to make you pay a few bucks more to see the protagonist on a unicorn instead of a horse you can bet they would.

erwan ,

They need to be less lazy on the ports and add the option to quit to desktop on the PC version even if it doesn’t exist on the console version.

Some games do, however I hate when I have to go to the menu before being able to quit to Desktop.

USB-C confirmed for the iPhone 15 in new leaked images - Macworld (www.macworld.com)

We’ve known that the iPhone is switching to USB-C for a while now, but there was always a possibility that Apple would stick with Lightning for one more year. Based on the latest leaked images, however, Apple is all-in on USB-C for the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro models, with USB-C parts for the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, and...

erwan ,

Wait until you hear the same Apple fans who kept repeating the iPhone is better because of the lightning port suddenly praise Apple’s genius to switch to USB-C.

erwan ,

Even if companies keep trying to be anti-consumer despite regulations, it doesn’t mean we need to stop trying.

Don’t forget that, at least in Europe, governments are elected by Europeans so they’re our representatives. Companies however only represent their shareholders, and their bigger ones in particular.

erwan ,

I’m already out of the connector hell for several years by buying only devices with USB-C.

The iPhone doesn’t have USB-C, I don’t even consider buying one.

erwan ,

Don’t worry, Apple fans will happily buy an official charger for 3x the price even if third party work perfectly well.

erwan ,

Things got better as manufacturers now implement the standard correctly.

Nowadays you can plug any device to any charger and the worse that can happen is your device not charging fast enough (sometimes actually discharging).

So if you get a powerful enough charger, you’ll be able to charge all your devices.

And yes, you can also do video out and for that you need to check the compatibility of your devices but it’s still not that bad, compared to the days where you could fry a device by using the wrong charger.

erwan ,

They released lightning about 3 years before the first USB-C phones, so they could have worked with the standard, delay the connector switch a bit, and use USB-C. They could even have released the first USB-C phone if they’re so keen on being “innovative”.

That would have save their users from 10 years of incompatible connectors.

But Apple never cared about standards, on the contrary they choose lock-in over standards whenever they can.

erwan ,

Not only it’s not Desktop, the Linux kernel is buried under such an alien user space that it’s has nothing to do with a Linux Desktop.

erwan ,

I know it’s unlikely for your mother, but a very real risk is a government forcing Google to hand over your data.

Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS (www.phoronix.com)

According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That’s a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months… It’s also near an all-time high on a percentage basis going back to the early days of Steam on Linux when it had around a 2%...

erwan ,

It also pushes developers to ensure their games run on Linux, even if it’s through Proton

erwan ,

You can have your own set of patches (and/or config) and still stay up to date with upstream.

You don’t need to do a hard fork to modify it for your needs.

erwan ,

I’d be glad to see better competition to the Steam Deck but currently they’re all very far.

They all run Windows and lack touchpads.

erwan ,

PC gaming is not cheaper than console gaming.

If you bought a state of the art PC during the PS4 era, it was more expensive than the PS4.

Then when the PS5 was released, if you wanted to upgrade your PC to be on par with the PS5 it costed more than the PS5.

I love PC gaming, but except for the cheaper games, it’s absolutely not cheaper than consoles.

erwan ,

I agree that PC gaming has a lot of benefits, and it’s also my preference, but if you want to keep a rig that plays current games at their best its not cheaper.

erwan ,

Add to that the fact that iPhone will switch to USB-C in max 2 years and people with any iPhone sold today will have to deal with a legacy connector.

erwan ,

Not in my case. I don’t care about the bells and whistles that messenging apps keep adding, I just want to send and receive messages.

erwan ,

Your messages will go through their servers. They claim they don’t persist anything but you can’t really have any proof of that.

There could even be NSA spyware that they’re not aware of in their data centers.

erwan ,

Having a metal roof doesn’t mean you need stickers or chat backgrounds - even the minimal features of Whatsapp and co in a generic app is fine for me.

My Opinion: NewPipe, Piped, Invidious, etc's days are numbered.

With Reddit shutting down its API setting a precedent in the corporate tech world (and Reddit was a major outlier in that a ton of their users are technical minded and support third party clients, YouTube does not have that kind of userbase and will not get backlash for it), Twitter doing whatever the fuck they’re doing, and...

erwan ,

I’m pretty sure the “trusted web” that Google is implementing in Chrome is exactly for that purpose: distinguish apps doing HTML scraping from users using a regular browser.

If Google wants to break Newpipe, they’ll find a way.

erwan ,

The problem is that the content creators that I like are all on YouTube and nowhere else. There is no alternative.

erwan ,

The problem is that hosting videos at scale is hard and expensive.

We can migrate from Twitter to Mastodon or Reddit to Lemmy, but what PeerTube instance is going to be able to serve videos for content creators like LTT or MKBHD?

erwan ,

YouTube pays content creators poorly so most of them rely on direct sponsorship rather than YouTube rev share.

Also YouTube is a nightmare for content creators because you can have videos delisted for a few swear words and the process is random and unpredictable. They would benefit from more independence.

erwan ,

From what I’ve seen, Gentoo was popular in the 2000’s for users who wanted maximum control over their system. That means recompiling everything.

Sometimes the “maximum control” when too far when users set aggressive optimization flags that broke some packages. To the point that some upstream developers (e.g. Gimp) were refusing bug reports from Gentoo users because of the stupid optimization flags they were setting in hope of getting a “faster” system.

Anyway, it seems to me like the crowd who liked Gentoo has mostly moved to Arch. But I’m sure Gentoo still has its fans.

I Compiled the Linux Kernel myself for the first time

It’s not really a big deal, but I am currently writing this using a linux kernel I compiled from source, which certainly feels like an accomplishment. The Arch Wiki has made the process fairly easy to follow. I just took the stock Arch Linux configuration without changes for now....

erwan ,

Hey, I did compile my kernel so I’m part of the club!

But now that I think about it, the last time was 20 years ago and it’s because it was the only way to get my sound card and network card working…

erwan ,

The problem is that Mozilla dropped the ball so hard, by focusing on making their C-staff into millionaires instead of making a good product, that it no longer matters. Their market share is so small that Firefox compatibility no longer matters.

Soon websites will require that DRM and either Firefox will implement it or it will be unable to render those websites.

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So Elon's a "visionary" who wants to turn X into a single website where you can do everything — kinda like Yahoo!

He wants his new MySpaceX portal to be a website...

Where you can message people: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger

Where you can stream audio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com

Where you can stream videos: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Screen

Where you can create social media posts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_360%C2%B0

Where you can manage your finances: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Finance

Where you can share photos: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Photos

Where you can earn money publishing content: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Publisher_Network

Where you can find a job: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_HotJobs

Where you can buy and sell stuff: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Auctions

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this truly is a vision for the future — if by "the future" you mean 1997.

#X @technology

erwan ,

You can do everything, unless one of those is a monopoly that you leverage for other products

erwan ,

How does that get him out of the loans?

Ubisoft Can Delete Inactive Accounts, Making Users Lose Access to Their Games (gamerant.com)

In a response to a post from the AntiDRM Twitter account, Ubisoft Support has clarified that users who don’t sign in to their account can potentially lose access to Ubisoft games they’ve purchased. The initial post from AntiDRM featured a snippet of an e-mail sent to a user from Ubisoft notifying them that their account had...

erwan ,

Some companies decide to delete user content not because it’s necessary for GDPR, but because it’s the simplest way for them to deal with GDPR.

erwan ,

It looks like you already find what they alternatives are, but as you noticed they’re not Photoshop. They work differently so you’ll need to develop a different set of skills to used them.

If what you want is to use Photoshop, the best is to install Photoshop itself with Wine.

erwan ,

You can’t really blame the amount of stupidity online.

The problem is that ChatGPT (and other LLM) produce content of the average quality of its input data. AI is not limited to LLM.

For chess we were able to build AI that vastly outperform even the best human grandmasters. Imagine if we were to release a chess AI that is just as good as the average human…

erwan ,

The definition of “AI” is fuzzy and keeps changing. Basically when an AI use case becomes solved and widespread it stopped being seen as AI.

Face recognition, OCR, speech recognition, all those used to be considered AI but now they’re just an app on your phone.

I’m sure in a few years we’ll stop thinking about text generation as AI, but just one more tool we can leverage.

There is no clear definition of “real AI”.

erwan ,

What’s your definition for “AI”?

erwan ,

AFAIK they are, but it will only happen if Framework sells enough units for it to be profitable to a 3rd party to manufacture parts.

So if Framework disappears tomorrow, I wouldn’t bet on 3rd party to jump on that niche market. That might change of Framework ships millions of units over the next years.

erwan ,

That’s for production, in dev Docker (or podman) is very much used.

Anyone else starting to favor Flatpak over native packages?

I am currently using Linux Mint (after a long stint of using MX Linux) after learning it handles Nvidia graphics cards flawlessly, which I am grateful for. Whatever grief I have given Ubuntu in the past, I take it back because when they make something work, it is solid....

erwan ,

I too have been using native packages for 25 years and I wouldn’t say it have been “fine”.

I’ve had to deal with outdated packages, where to have the latest version of a software you had to compile from source.

I had to deal with 3rd party repositories that broke my system.

I had to deal with conflicting versions of a library.

I had to deal with the migration from libc5 to glibc and God that was horrible.

So yes containers might be a little more complex in its implementation, but it means I can install apps from third parties without touching my system and I love that. My OS stays clean, and my apps don’t mess with it.

erwan ,

Way before “tldr” became something on the internet, research papers had an abstract and news articles had a lead that tells you what the article is about.

I think this article is very good but replacing the abstract/lead by a snug paragraph is not a good idea.

erwan ,

The tldr is usually called “the lead” in newspaper articles and it tells you roughly what’s it’s about so you know if you want to read the damn thing or not.

erwan ,

The fundamental difference is that flatpak is a good system, adopted by many distributions.

Snap sucks and only Ubuntu uses it.

They’ll do like their Unity UI, wait many years until they realize their mistake then drop it.

erwan ,

Just because you can’t completely degooglize doesn’t mean there is no value in reducing their place in your life.

Degooglize what you can, step by step.

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